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One of These Movie Soundtracks Is Oscar Bound

A look at the five compositions that are nominated for Best Original Score

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Jim Fusilli

Updated Jan. 26, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

The members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who picked the five Oscar nominees for Best Original Score this year overlooked such excellent works as Mychael Danna's dark, gnawing music for "Breach" and Howard Shore's bitterly melancholic score for "Eastern Promises." (Jonny Greenwood's monumental music for "There Will Be Blood" wasn't eligible, since it recycled parts of one of his earlier compositions.) This was reminiscent of last year, when the academy members unaccountably failed to nominate Alexandre Desplat's gorgeous score for "The Painted Veil." Still, in...